When the movement to promote evidence-based healthcare began in the late 1980s, it started in the field of child birth. So it might be expected that by now, nearly a quarter of a century later, there...

  There is no consistency in what data different charitable and government funders working in the criminal justice field ask for. This wastes the time and precious resources of small independent organisations according to Mat Ilic,...

According to Peter Suber open access is academic literature which is “digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions”. Open access delivered by journals is called “gold” open access and open...

  Ray Lock examines the need to move beyond emotive rhetoric and sound bytes with armed forces charities and focus on rigorous evaluations and evidence-based organisations to prove help is going where it’s needed.  Most of...

Creating a common set of standards for all evidence may be impossible but according to Sir Iain Chalmers, one of the founders of the Cochrane Collaboration, there are some basic principles of good evidence that apply...

In this guest blog, Stephen Bediako, Founder and Managing Director of The Social Innovation Partnership, attempts to make sense of the sudden splurge of evidence initiatives in the UK.  It’s an evidence fest. A sudden splurge...

Recent arguments about Syria have provoked memories of the evidence in the so-called ‘dodgy dossier’ used to help support action against Iraq.  Professor Rob Briner, Vice-Chair of the international Centre for Evidence-Based Management, describes how we can do better...

  How is social media data accessed and what are the challenges in using it to understand our world?  John Davies of Nesta’s Policy and Research team discusses some of the issues and considers how this...